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A. H. ENGEL.

BOX FUR HOLDING RUFFLING.

No. 360,212. Patented Mar. 29, 1887.

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM H. ENGEL,

OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

BOX FOR HOLDING RUFFLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,212. dated March 29. 1887.

Application filed July 22, 1884. Renewed February 12, 1887. Serial No. 227,391. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM H. ENGEL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Box for Holding Buffling, &c., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a box for merchants use, whereby ruffling, ruching, and similar goods may be held and advantageously exhibited and measured off to customers without exposing or handling the whole piece or length of goods.

Reference is to be had-to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which the figure is a perspective view of my new and improved box without the cover.

The body A of the box may be of any desired form and size, and may be made of paper or of any other suitable material. At the corners of the box are secured, inside the box, the short blocks 6, or other supports for sup porting the false bottom or diaphragm B. This diaphragm B is formed with the slot 0, and is provided upon its upper surface with the collar (1, around which a loop, 6, of the ruffling or other goods, 0, kept in the box may be placed, for advantageously exhibiting the goods, the loop 6 being brought up through the slot 0, the remainder of the goods being kept below the diaphragm B. The front wall, D, of the box is hinged to the bottom of the box and is by preference formed with the end laps, ff, and is by preference graduated upon its upper or inner surface, as shown at g, to furnish a convenient measure for measuring the goods to customers. For holding the diaphragm B securely, in the box,I provide it upon the inside with the blocks h h, slightly above the supporting-blocks b, so that the dia phragm B when in place will be held between the blocks b h, as will be understood from the drawing.

In placing the goods in the box one end of the goods will be passed through the slot 0 and around the collar d and secured. Then the goods will be folded back and forth in the box from the back of the box forward, leaving the end 0 of the goods at the front of the box, where it can be conveniently reached for measuring off the goods to customers. The diaphragm B will then be placed in the box between the blocks bh, covering the main body of the goods, and then the front wall, D, will be closed and the cover of the box put in place.

In this manner the goods may be advantageously exhibited by simply removing the cover without exposing all of the goods and without handling the goods, and by means of the hinged front wall, D, and the graduations thereon the goods may be conveniently measured off to customers.

Instead of making the false bottom or diaphragm B separate from the body of the box it may be hinged in the box.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The box A, provided with the false bottom or diaphragm B, held upon suitable supports in the box and formed with the slotc and collar (2, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The box A, for ruffling, &c., provided with the hinged front wall, a lower compartment for containing the bulk of the fabric, and an upper exhibitingcompartment, spaced blocks and supports h b, and a slotted sliding exhibiting-diaphragm fitting between the spaced blocks and supports, substantially as set forth.

3. Thebox A, provided with the supportingblocks 1), hinged front wall, D, and blocks h, in combination with the diaphragm B, slotted at c and provided with the collar d, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

ABRAHAM H. ENGEL.

Vitnesses:

H. A. WEST, G. SEDGWIOK. 

